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David Rodin's book, War and Self Defense, is a subtle and provocative analysis of the claim of self-defense and its relation to modern war. Building on his analysis, I raise some further issues about self-defense as a justification of modern nation state war. Principal among these is what I call the conscription paradox: if the state's right to make war is grounded in the right of its citizens to self-defense, how do we explain the right of modern states to conscript its citizens into the military – and order them to die, if need be? This problem has been acknowledged by liberal individual thinkers over the years, but not solved. It raises questions of whether a coherent account of current nation state military practice can be grounded in individual self-defense.

This article examines public caning in Aceh using a psychological perspective. In 2018, the issue of the pros and cons of the implementation of public caning in Aceh did not have much attention. Suddenly, the new pros and cons emerged about the venue of caning which was initially held in public (courtyard) and then was held in a prison. The pros and cons emerged when the Government of Aceh did not plan to demonstrate public caning in order to protect the dignity of a convict. Using literature sources, this article sees that a psychological perspective can be taken into account in punishment policies in Aceh. The main argument in this article is that public punishment has a long-lasting psychological impact. This finding strengthens the opinion that there are differences in the objectives of the law applied by the Aceh government with the law implemented conventionally in Indonesia.